Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
In place of the usual all-team meeting centered on program updates and strategic priorities, the Lifebox global team changed gears for a Virtual Wellness Day, a session that offered a collective…
October 23, 2025 – In a new chapter for global surgical safety, Lifebox, the global safer surgery and anesthesia nonprofit, elected two leading voices in global health, Professor Thomas G. Weiser and…
We are excited to share that Lifebox’s work has been featured in the latest edition of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) Bulletin. The article shines a powerful light on the strength and resilience of surgical…
Clean cut in Honduras
Dr. Buowari talks to Lifebox on safe anesthesia in Nigeria and her work responding to COVID-19 and pulse oximetry.
Professor Miliard Derbew talks to Lifebox on the challenges of providing safe surgical pediatric care and safe surgery in East Africa
A global survey has found severe lack of essential personal protective equipment and infection prevention protocols, putting perioperative providers at risk of COVID-19 infection.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) joins forces with Lifebox to provide essential medical equipment in the COVID-19 pandemic.
A landmark study by GlobalSurg, published in the Lancet, has highlighted the need to focus on post-operative care -with surgical patients in low/lower middle-income countries six times more likely to die within 30 days of a major complication than high-income countries.
Pediatric pulmonologist, Dr. Eric D. McCollum discusses oximetry, oxygen and Lesotho's COVID-19 response with Lifebox.
Lifebox's top five milestones from its work to improve the safety of surgery and anesthesia across low-resource settings in 2020 - from the distribution of 6,500 pulse oximeters to ten-years of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.
Improving the safety of C-sections to save mothers' lives in Ethiopia with Lifebox's Clean Cut Program. This work is part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges initiative, funded by UBS Optimus Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards a Grand Challenges initiative to Lifebox to improve the safety of cesarean-sections in Ethiopia.
Smile Train and Lifebox joins forces to launch the Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative to elevate the standard of care for pediatric surgical patients around the globe.
